I think the explicit concern about the community was a desire for more committers. Click has contributions from a variety of people, but needs more people contributing regularly to provide assurances of the longevity desired at Apache.
It does seem a little paradoxical. Is there a need for a few rough edges to irritate users enough to get more involved? That's how I came on board Velocity :-) I think frequent releases (and articles - great idea!) can only help. Plus a little time. WILL On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 5:14 AM, Adrian A. <[email protected]> wrote: >> Click didn't progress through to a TLP yet as feedback from the Apache >> was that the community needed to be bigger. So we will try again in a >> few months time. > > Very strange. So let me think loud :) : > #1. - click has very good docs, so there's no need for the users to ask many > questions. As a consequence the traffic is very small on the lists. > #2. - click users can build very easily click themselves (as opposed to the > many projects moved to maven) - so no need to download it. So the traffic is > small again. > > So #1 and #2 being a plus (for me and my simple logic), it is considered a > minus at apache.org? :) > > very strange :). > >
